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The ironic and the most chilling thing is the people in the class action lawsuit aren't remotely aware their sex acts are already all recorded not by dildos but everyday appliances in the bedroom-microphones, cameras, now available to every hacker and selected government employees/contractors.

Forfeiture of privacy as a free citizen to higher powers is absolutely okay but if my dildo starts recording how many times I've been penetrated with it and uploads it to the internet-pitchforks for all.

Such is the mechanism of the common man/woman/ze. Incapable and unwilling to spend the extra brain power associated with understanding the underlying system but quick to get angry and play the victim when that oversight finally burns him.

"A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance." - Some old white guy.

In this case those who procrastinated in their acquisition of understanding and knowledge of systems and signed their privacy away, were unable to reverse their outcome when it turned out to be not in their best interests.



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